The Saga Continues

I know all of you are just chomping at the bit for me to continue our talks on the unchurched and the most effective ways to reach them. I mean after all that is why we all do what we do right?

We do have a choice in our Christ-following-walk. We can choose to hang out and grow spiritually. To instill ourselves full and over flowing with the presence and power of the Holy Ghost to cause others that are around us to become more jealous of the spirit of God that rests on us [this is a good choice]. Or we could choose to get right with God. Accept the spiritual gifts that He has set aside for us. Recognize our God-predestined-gifts and talents that are inherent in us and then work. Strive to be around people that are NOT like us. Make sure we live and operate in places that are dark. [Because I mean after all the littlest light always seems the brightest in the darkest of places.] And show others the love and joy and hope of Jesus Christ [this is the BEST (of course this is my opinion) choice].

Okay well, that was my little soap box let's look at the next couple of 'best' ways to reach the unchurched.

6. Discern patterns of relationships in your own church.

We might think that unchurched people have NO connection with the church. However, that is not the truth. Studies have shown that many unchurched people have a spouse that regularly goes to church. If on any given Sunday you handout cards and ask them to write down three people that they are praying for to receive Christ. Inevitably you will receive a plethora of spouses. So what does that mean? Even the saved Christians in your church know people that don't know Christ.

7. Check your facilities.

The formerly unchurched spoke cogently of the necessity of having neat, clean and updated facilities to reach people.

"I saw a lot of things through unchurched eyes before I became a Christian a few months ago," one participant responded. "What surprised me was how many churches let their facilities and their landscaping go to the dogs. It was as if they were advertising 'we don't care' by the way they looked. I sure didn't go back to those places."

Okay, so clean. Present something that is nice, clean and well…….something you wouldn't mind your mother-in-law seeing. :)